Note 988 — Chapter IX · THE REIGN OF EADWARD FROM THE RETURN OF GODWINE TO THE DEATH OF EADWARD THE ÆTHELING.[921] 1052–1057.

Chron. Petrib. “Sume west to Pentecostes castele, some norð to Rodbertes castele.” Pentecost, as we gather from Florence, who speaks of “Osbernus cognomento Pentecost”—what can be the meaning of so strange a surname?—is the same as Osbern, the son of Richard of Richard’s Castle, of whom we have already heard so much. Robert’s castle must be some castle belonging to Robert the son of Wymarc, as distinctly the most notable man of his name in the country after Robert the Archbishop. Most of his lands lay in the East of England; but he had also property in the shires of Hertford, Huntingdon, and Cambridge, though I do not find any mention of a castle on any of his estates there.